How to get rid of beginning balance in "How Much Did I Pay To?" report

Susan Beecher

Sometimes when I run the "How Much Did I Pay To?" report, there is a beginning balance. First of all, I don't understand why there would be a beginning balance and secondly how can I stop this from happening. Thanks for any help.

UKR

Does your report look like this?

The Balance 12/31/2018 is the total of all transactions for the payee which occurred before the selected Date Range.

The total for 1/1/2019 - 12/31/2019 is the total for all transactions within the selected date range.
The Balance 12/31/2019 is the Grand Total of all transactions for this Payee for all dates on file.
Total Inflows / Outflows / Net is the total for all transactions within the selected date range.

Confusing. Or should we call it a bug?
I'm thinking the programmers should look into this and make the report ignore all transactions outside the selected Date Range.

UKR

Does your report look like this?

The Balance 12/31/2018 is the total of all transactions for the payee which occurred before the selected Date Range.

The total for 1/1/2019 - 12/31/2019 is the total for all transactions within the selected date range.
The Balance 12/31/2019 is the Grand Total of all transactions for this Payee for all dates on file.
Total Inflows / Outflows / Net is the total for all transactions within the selected date range.

Confusing. Or should we call it a bug?
I'm thinking the programmers should look into this and make the report ignore all transactions outside the selected Date Range.

Susan Beecher

Yes, my reports do look like that. I read somewhere that you could change this in report preferences but it didn't work. This isn't a huge deal but it is just odd. I agree that the programmers should simply produce what the user asks for. ;-)